I finished recording the first episode of my podcast last night! I'm still wrestling with all the technical stuff of getting it up to my new website (Ah, PodPress. THAT's what I'm missing!) but hopefully it should be up in the next couple of days. It's a kids book about wannabe superheroes, the golden rule of comic books, and fandom. It's probably the most G-rated thing I've ever written and is (hopefully) a lot of fun.

I'll link to it here as soon as it's finished and posted (and maybe start a new thread in Podcast Pedantry). I'm obviously very, very new at trying to do a podcast, so I expect there will be a lot I can learn from you all about it.

It's here! Episode 1 of my podcast, "The Unbelievable Origin of Superspiff and the Toothpick Kid" is now up at my new website Dave Shot First. Hear me ramble about secret identies (the real golden rule), would-be superheroes (not to be confused with poser superheroes), Cyberpunk and the Cyber-Commandos (the cool and teh suck). Like I say in the intro, I wrote this to be an intergenerational thing, so if you have kids, hopefully they'll get a kick out of it, too.

Obviously, all this tech stuff is a work in progress for me. Any feedback you want to give on the story and the site is greatly appreciated. (There's no itunes button, yet, but I'm hoping to add that soon. I'm also going to try and tweak some of the blog formatting, -- i.e., make the red letters bigger.)

Dave, feel free to drop a double post in the podcast pedantry. This is a one time offer. Don't go nuts and make us come after you for spamming. Anyway, I think you could get the word to a couple more people that way. Don't forget to add it to your sig.

Also, if you want to add the podcast to your sig, N-sh, that'd be alright with me

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Went to your site to download. I didn't just want to download the first ep. I wanted to set up the feed. I had trouble finding the link. When I did find it, the address was "feed:http…". My comp didn't like the "feed:" part. I copied edited and pasted and got your feed. Just thought you might want to edit that link a bit.

I'll listen to it sometime during the week when the kids are in the car. I'll let you know how it goes over.

Dave, I really liked it. Having said that I'm going to move into the helpful (hopefully) nitpicks.

The audio has been brought up. It makes sense for the voice to be mono, but it needs to be in both channels.

Your voice was really loud during the intro, probably in the red. This causes some loss of quality. Keep it in the green, man.

In your thanks section at the end you thank your father-in-law (I think) twice. Sounds like you recorded it more than once and kept the two best recordings.

All in all a super first podcast. Most of the first eps I've heard were just horrible. I don't think there's anything that won't shake out with experience.

Played it for my kids this morning, but they're too young for this. They didn't get the setting or anything. Superheroes are just on underwear and t-shirts to them. They have no idea about Comic conventions or anything of the sort. I, however, am old enough to get it.

And the nitpicks are much appreciated. I'm very much trying to figure this whole thing out, and any feedback I get is very helpful. So thanks! Sound quality will definitely be something I have to work on for the next ep.

Overall the sound quality was clear. You were just too loud for some of it. But there weren't bad echoes or other noises. Sounds like you don't really need to change your set up at all. You just need to get used to speaking a little more on a level.

Overall the sound quality was clear. You were just too loud for some of it. But there weren't bad echoes or other noises. Sounds like you don't really need to change your set up at all. You just need to get used to speaking a little more on a level.

Hopefully, it was better this last time. Though I fear the audio was still somehow mysteriously tweaked by the leftists.

NEW NEWS!

I have a secret project. Sweet!

I have to write, edit, record, edit, and send out said secret project in about two weeks. Not a lot of time for dilly dallying.